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Use this application if you teach at a college/university and hold a five-year renewable certificate that is expiring Aug. 31 of the current year. Don’t apply for renewal before Jan. 1 of the year your certificate expires as it will be returned to you. If you don’t renew your certificate before it expires, you’ll have to complete an application for reinstatement.
There’s no additional fee to apply for additional endorsements and/or certificates when you renew your certificate. However, appropriate documentation must be included to verify the additional endorsement requirements have been met.
To renew your certificate, follow the instructions in the application packet. All required documents, including transcripts, must be included for an application to be considered complete.
To renew the Postsecondary Occupational Specialist Certificate you must earn the equivalent of six (6) credit hours, within the validity period of the certificate, by documenting transcripted credits, conference/workshop hours, or back-to-industry hours as follows.
1. Six transcripted credits, or
2. Ninety hours of attendance at approved conferences, institutes, or workshops, or
3. Two-hundred-forty endorsement-area related back-to-industry hours, or
4. Any combination of the above, where one transcripted credit = 15 hours of in-service = 40 hours of back-to-industry work.
Postsecondary occupational specialist renewal application packet
Use this application if your five-year Idaho CTE certificate has expired. You’ll be issued a nonrenewable, three-year CTE Interim Certificate. During the validity period of this certificate, you must meet all requirements for your specific certificate and endorsement areas to apply for a five-year renewable certificate later.
All required documents must be included in one packet to consider your application complete.
To renew your reinstated certificate you must earn the equivalent of six (6) credit hours, within the validity period of your reinstatement certificate, by documenting transcripted credits, conference/workshop/in-service hours, or back-to-industry hours as follows:
- Six (6) transcripted credits; or
- Ninety (90) hours of attendance at approved technical conferences, institutes, or workshops; or
- Two-hundred-forty (240) endorsement-related back-to-industry hours, or
- Any combination of the above, where 1 transcripted credit = 15 hours of in-service = 40 hours of back-to-industry work.
In addition to the requirements above, you must provide our office with two (2) years of successful teaching evaluations from a supervisor.
Use this application if you hold a five-year renewable Idaho certificate and want to add new certificate(s) and/or endorsement(s). Revisions to an Idaho credential may be requested at when the credential is being renewed or at any other time.
All required documents must be included in one packet for an application to be considered complete. Supporting documents justifying the request for new or different endorsements must be included as attachments to the application. Under Section I: Type, mark your application as a revision.
Do you work at a college or university? Find renewal, reinstatement, and revision resources.
Need More Information?
Kristi Enger
Director
208.429.5528
Raley Ollerenshaw
Technical Records Specialist II
208.429.5513
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